Ian Siegal The Mississippi Mudbloods | en

The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi was an American gospel group. Powered by lead singer Archie Brownlee, their single "Our Father" reached the Billboard Rhythm & Blues charts in the early 1950s, one of the first gospel records to do so. The group originated in 1936 as a quartet of students from the Piney Woods School for the blind near Jackson, Mississippi. The students — Brownlee, Joseph Ford, Lawrence Abrams, and Lloyd Woodard — originally sang under the name "the Cotton Blossom Singers", performing both jubilee quartet and secular material, to raise money for the school. Their teacher, Martha Louise...

BLIND ROOSEVELT GRAVES (Mississippi Jook Band) Blind Roosevelt Graves was a moderately successful Mississippi bluesman and guitarist who mixed secular and sacred material and recorded a few songs during a relatively short career. However he has one significant claim to fame in that he is accorded by many as being the artist to make the earliest rock and roll recording. Very few biographical details of Blind Roosevelt Graves' early life are known. He was born in Rose Hill near Meridian, Mississippi, probably around the beginning of the 20th century. He and his brother Uaroy began playing juke joints in the...

Born in the deep south (of England!) in 1971, Ian's earliest musical memories are of the likes of Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Chuck Berry, but it was on hearing the great Little Richard that he really caught the music bug and became nothing short of obsessive about it. This lead him into a life-long passion for the Blues and all of its various branches, and most of all, the man he calls "God" - the inimitable Muddy Waters. At 16 he began to roadie occasionally for his cousin's band and one night, quite unexpectedly, he was asked...

Argentinean blues band La Mississippi started playing under the name of Mississippi Blues Band in the late '80s. In 1993, the group released its debut album, called Mbugi, followed by 1995's Bagayo and 1996's Classic. La Mississippi starting getting closer to contemporary blues while recording Cara y Ceca in 1997. Two years later, the six-piece act had the opportunity to perform in front of a major audience, when they opened for Credence Clearwater Revisited at Buenos Aires' Obras Sanitarias. They later issued Palacio de Pulgas. .